BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?

Subject: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST,The spirit of 76
Date: 28 May 06 - 03:10 AM

So much talk of a dry 2006 already. Can anyone really see that far ahead through the clouds ?

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 May 06 - 03:42 AM

Well, the Anchorage, Alaska area has had a number of wild fires already. And that's not even mentioning the dry conditions in the lower 48.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 May 06 - 04:36 AM

Wellingtons waterproofs and webbed feet up here in Scotland.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: skarpi
Date: 28 May 06 - 04:45 AM

Well Iceland , the country in the middle in the Atlantic ocean
who has always been known for wheathers who can changeble here
we have sun and warm summer at last .

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: alanabit
Date: 28 May 06 - 04:59 AM

It has been a pretty rotten start to the summer here in Köln, but it will improve England's chances in the World Cup if summer does not appear until July.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 28 May 06 - 05:02 AM

In Chesham, Bucks (UK) it's raining and my little pond is full to the brim. So clearly all this talk of a drought is poppycock.

In Surrey, now, there is a drought. But it's the fault of all the Surrey inhabitants for changing their climate with their unthinking behaviours. I was wise, and I'm all right.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 28 May 06 - 05:03 AM

Pimms anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 06 - 06:00 AM

I am heartened by the memory of '76, when it snowed here (S Yorks UK) on the first Monday in June. By the following Saturday we had the start of a pleasant heatwave that lasted into September. And our reservoirs are full(ish)

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 May 06 - 08:27 AM

We're finally getting sunny weather, upper 70s F here in New England- and it's about time is all I can say!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 May 06 - 12:52 PM

I think that the last time we had a serious rain (one that lasted more than 5 minutes) was last October.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 May 06 - 12:55 PM

NM is not well known for its rainfall Art!
G ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 May 06 - 01:21 PM

Not in large and continuous amounts Giok, but we had no snow, even in the mountains, and the springs rains were entirely absent. The Rio Grande now has stretches that are miles long where it is completely dry. The fire season started early and will be bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Roughyed
Date: 28 May 06 - 06:58 PM

It's p*ss*ng down in Manchester - hold the front page!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: dianavan
Date: 28 May 06 - 08:01 PM

Here in Vancouver its been raining off and on for over a week. Grey skies and wind, too. The only consolation is that it is so green and lush that when the sun finally breaks through it will be gorgeous! The gardens are amazing.

The contrast in temperature will also mean that the sun will feel unbearably hot. Vancouver is famous for its on again, off again weather. The old saying around here is, "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 May 06 - 10:08 AM

We move to the next level of water restrictions here in SE Qld on 16 June.
Our summer rains didn't!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 06 - 10:51 AM

81 today. I hate summer!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 06 - 11:54 AM

Water restrictions in place June through September here in my North Texas village. In the low 90s lately. Summer has been here for a while, and we're just to the right of Artbrooks on the map, and have also been really short of rain. Gardens aren't doing well again this year. I'm going to make a point of watering a patch of grass for the dogs out back--it was really hard on them to have just dry dirt and blowing straw that was once the lawn last fall. (They're outdoor dogs, 24/7.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 29 May 06 - 12:33 PM

There was some chap on British TV recently, and he was using some German WW2 method for predicting the weather. He reckons that, around June 15th, the weather will really improve, and then the UK will experience the 9th best summer in the last 100 years. Hope he's got it right!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Fergie
Date: 29 May 06 - 01:00 PM

In Dublin its cold and its been the wettest May since records began. Globing warming me arse. If the Gulf stream stops flowing Ireland will be in for another Ice Age. Will you yanks please tradein your SUVs, turn down the heating systems and turn off the airconditioners. Lets all go renewable and turn back the tide of global weather change.

Me bloody teeth are chattering and its almost JUNE.

Fergus

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 May 06 - 01:21 PM

Well, Fergie...my heating system is set to 20C (when it's on at all), I don't have air conditioning, and I figure my SUV is really a small truck and that's what I use it for.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 May 06 - 05:31 PM

will all this rain improve England's chances of winning the world cup.....?

that's a tough one, al.

I believe not. Germany will win. they always have a good team and being the home side is a definite advantage.

there's optimism and there's desperation....having seen the atmosphere in Cologne, and presumably thing are hotting up even more than when I was there. I can appreciate your situation.

but you need some British phlegm, in this situation. if anything good happens - it will be a nice surprise. But don't waste any money betting on a surprise.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 29 May 06 - 09:47 PM

And btw, it's hot in Pittsburgh, PA {USA} finally.

But we've had alot of off and on rain. But then again, that's normal for Pittsburgh.

Again, sorry for interrupting your conversation.

[I feel like saying "Carry on, old chaps." But on second thought that sentence seems to me to be a bad American version of how we think British people talk. And you know how much I detest stereotypes. So I won't say it. Oh I just did, didn't I? My bad.]

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 May 06 - 03:59 AM

How is the pawnshop on the corner Azizi?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Diva
Date: 31 May 06 - 02:56 AM

Oh I hope so, I am sick of being cold...could always go back to Turkey I suppose

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 May 06 - 03:57 AM

On the Isle of Grain peninsula it hasn't rained yet today, nor did it rain last night. Is this a record?

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 May 06 - 05:16 AM

Here in Ohio River valley area Ohio we're working on our third day in a row of +90 degree temps.......and before that several days of just below 90. This is above our average high at this time of year of 76......in other words, WAY TOO DAMN HOT!!!

We're shipping it all toward Azizi.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 31 May 06 - 06:00 AM

Next door to Heathrow airport today it's sunny (for a change) but the wind is still strong and chilly. A bit of warmer weather wouldn't come amiss right now, after all it's nearly June and I still need some heating on the boat at night.

George P, is the offer of Pimms still on, I'll bring my own ice!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 31 May 06 - 07:53 AM

'Giok', "Pawnshop on the corner"- is that also part of the British stereotype?

Bars on every corner is a part of the stereotype of urban Black American communities. And like other stereotypes, aren't true.

Point well taken.

And Spaw, thank you very much but you don't have to ship hot weather to Pittsburgh. Yesterday was 92 degrees without any rain-will wonders never cease. And today the weatherman {Opps! the weather person} is predicting only slightly lower temperatures but we're supposed to get afternoon showers...

So what else is new?

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 31 May 06 - 07:57 AM

It also "aren't" true that all Black people speak or write "bad" grammatical English.

I blame that "aren't" in my last post on the rush to get to work on time.

"Cheerio!" and enjoy the weather wherever you is.

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 31 May 06 - 08:29 AM

Azizi, on what do you blame 'the weather wherever you "is" '. LOL

Hope you is got to work safely. Or should that be are got to work safely!!

Bye the way, we've got rid of all the pawnshops and the banks and the other useful shops and turned them into bars and estate agents.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 31 May 06 - 09:09 AM

Hello!

Well, actually I'm not due to work until 9:30 AM and it only takes me 15 minutes to get to where I gotta go today, so I'm outa here after this post.

You asked what I attribute this warm weather to [I was raised during the times when you weren't supposed to end a sentence with a preposition. But it seems to fit there, so times change and grammar rules may change to keep up with the times]..
I'm not sure folks outside of the USA got the opportunity to see a Christmas cartoon that featured the brothers HeatMiser & ColdMiser {or some such name]. That cartoon had some great jingle type songs like this one:

I'm Mister HeatMiser
I'm Mr. Sun
I'm Mister HeatMiser
I'm Mister hundred and one.
Friends call me HeatMiser
Whatever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch.
I'm too much.
-snip-

[For some reason, though it has been a number of years since I last saw this cartoon, I remember the HeatMiser's song and not his brother's].

Well, anyway HeatMiser and his brother ColdMiser were battling in the sky over what type of weather there would be for Christmas. HeatMiser didn't want there to be snow and of course ColdMiser wanted a lot of snow. Of course, at the end of that cartoon, ColdMiser won.

All of that to say that I think HeatMiser is responsible for the unseasonably hot weather that some parts of the world are getting right now.
And that's that!

;o)

PS: Mingulay at work-I hope they're not working you too hard.

As to turning pawnshops into estate agents- in the USA "estate agents" are people who manage estates. I assume that in Great Britain that term means the building where those people work, right?

If so, that's another example of the meaning of English words being different in different English speaking nations.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 May 06 - 01:36 PM

"There's a pawnshop on the corner
In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania..."

Forgotten the rest, I guess. But in the '50s it was briefly a popular song, Azizi.

"But I ain't got a thing left to hock..."

"She was peaches, she was honey..."

"If you should meet ... and ask her tonight for a date
She'll tell you somewhere there's a rich millionaire
And he's calling for her about 8:00"

Memory. Humph.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 31 May 06 - 01:54 PM

I've been looking for the words to that pawnshop song without remembering anything about it except that dad used to sing it to bug mom, thanks!
Meanwhile, we here in Central VA have already had our 1st day of over 100-degree (F) heat...

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 May 06 - 02:24 PM

This part of New England (New Hampshire) just went from cold and raining to hot and humid.

At least it's not snowing. (But I think we skipped a season between last week and yesterday.)

Another year when it's too early to get things planted right up until it's too late. Sigh.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 31 May 06 - 07:01 PM

Here's the words to that Pittsburgh pawnshop song:

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
Written by Bob Merrill
performed by Guy Mitchell

Peaked at # 4 in 1952


(There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I walk up and down 'neath the clock
(By the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
But I ain't got a thing left to hock

She was peaches, she was honey, and she cost me all my money
'cause a whirl 'round the town was her dream (was her dream)
Took her dancin', took her dinin' till her blue eyes were shinin'
With the sights that they never had seen (never seen)
If you should run into a golden-haired angel
And ask her tonight for a date
She'll tell you somewhere there's a rich millionaire
Who is calling again about eight

(There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I've just gotta get five or ten (five or ten)
(From the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Gotta be with my angel again

http://ww.lyricsdepot.com/guy-mitchell/pittsburgh-pennsylvania.html

-snip-

I betcha that 2/3rds of the people in Pittsburgh nowadays have never heard of this song. I know I didn't...

Somewhat off subject -Me talking to myself "who me??" "Yeah you".
...composer Stephen Foster's home is about 4 minutes from where I live, but hardly anyone knows it's there. And few Pittsburghers in general even know that Stephen Foster lived in Pittsburgh. That strikes me as wrong, even though I have mixed feelings about some-actually most- of Stephen Foster's songs.

But sorry.. that's tooo far off topic.

How's this:
It's gettin hot in here and I don't have any air conditioning.
It's gonna be a long hot summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Mingulay
Date: 31 May 06 - 07:08 PM

Azizi, they work me periodically and seem to pay me less often. I should have qualified my post estate agents here handle what you call real estate. They sell houses for exorbitant fees using sales techniques that would shame a fairground hustler and all belong to a sort of bricks and mortar mafia.

I have stayed out of their clutches by living on a boat.

It's now midnight and gone cold again.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 May 06 - 08:55 PM

I think (if I correctly understand the American usage) that "estate agent" (England) = "realtor" (US) - but the estate agent does not have a function as escrow agent. Scotland is different because its laws are different.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Azizi
Date: 31 May 06 - 09:30 PM

Thanks, I understand the estate agent referent now.

****

..."Scotland is different because its laws are different".

That's one of the reasons why I like Mudcat. Because it's an international forum, there are always opportunities to learn about different cultures, even on a thread about hot & not hot enough weather.

Mudcat-may it live long and prosper!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:21 PM

I think we had quite a good one!

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 02:18 PM

Not in Juneau, Alaska, by normal standards. It's been chilly (in the 50s and low 60s most of the summer) and VERY wet.

On the other hand, I'll take our summer over just about anywhere south of here. It has been HOT most places.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:46 PM

Ebbie, We enjoyed our short taste of summer in Alaska! Much nicer than summer in Sydney, which is humid, hot, humid, steamy, humid......
you get the idea.

Summer in Sydney leaves me feelng like a lettuce leaf that has been out of the fridge for too long.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:43 PM

Interesting that this thread should be revived now. We in the Southern half have had a very warm winter, and are now enduring a wet and freezing cold spring.
Are we going to get a summer? Doesn't look like it.

I agree with you 100% JennieG. I grew up in Sydney and always it was so, but I think it's gotten even worst in the last few years.

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 12:18 PM

The heat wave we were experiencing here in north Texas broke a couple of weeks ago, when we had a nice rainy day with a gentle rain all day long. It soaked in and now all of the lawns are green again, whether they were watered or not all summer. I suspect there are more than a few of us wondering if we can get a fall crop in now.

SRS (who notes that a google ad below says "Find Hip Surgeons." I don't suppose they're referring to their personal style. . . )

Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 02:10 PM

What's "A Summer"?

Barry